Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. Anyone remember when the Columbine victims' families sued id and others because Doom "made" the shooters kill their victims. And the killings in Tennessee I believe, where they said GTA "made" them do it. I'm sorry, but a video game does not make anyone do anything.
As others have said, it's simply a case of piss poor parenting. Parents today don't know jack about raising kids. It's pathetic. It's because parents would rather let the TVs, video games, and computers watch their kids. Because parents don't want to take the time or responsibility to raise and watch their kids themselves. Lazy parents. There is nothing wrong witht this, if the parents have taught them that what you see and do in a video game shouldn't be repeated in real life. But if they're gunna be like that, then the parents should have never had kids to begin with. You know, there's a magic invention. It's called birth control, maybe these parents should learn how to use it. We'd have far less idiots in the world if they did.
NIntendo would've mopped the floor with these morons, just like every other sap that has tried to blame "accidents" or "violence" on video games. Video games get the bad rap in our society because the medium is so successful. If this were 1984, no one would give a crap about video games. It's like I always say, society acts like murders, robberies, shootings, seizures, etc, never happened before video games came around. Somehow I beg to differ. The fact of the matter is, they just weren't reported as often or with as much intensity. It's sad really that our society has degenerated to the point where we blame our own shortcomings as parents on mass media.
Here is an interesting read on CNN similar to what I discussed:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/01/news/funny/violent_games.reut/index.htm?cnn=yesProves my point that society blames it's problems on video games. And note, this was in Sweden, not the U.S. So it's not just Americans who think video games are "the devil."
And for the record, Joe Libermann is an ass. I'm glad he isn't in the presidential race anymore. He has had it out for video games ever since Mortal Kombat. The man has probably never played any of the games he so harshly criticizes, and then on top of that he think that politicians should determine how parents raise their children.